president (1961-63), born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts; the second of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine children. .
Kennedy was the youngest man elected president of the United States, dying from an assassin's bullet after serving less than one term in office. .
Kennedy attended private elementary schools, including a year at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London School of Economics. He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave during his freshman year because of an attack of jaundice. In the fall of 1936 he enrolled at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in June 1940. During World War II, he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. When the boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943, Kennedy, despite serious injuries, led the surviving crew through miles of perilous waters to safety. .
After the war, Kennedy worked for several months in 1945 as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, covering a conference in San Francisco that established the United Nations. In 1947, he became a Democratic Congressman from Boston, and in 1952, successfully campaigned against Henry Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts to advance to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953, and the couple had two children, Caroline Bouvier (born 1957) and John Fitzgerald (born 1960). Another son, Patrick Bouvier, died shortly after birth in 1963. While recuperating from back surgery, Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage (1956), a study of courageous political acts by eight United States senators, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy campaigned for and nearly gained the Democratic nomination for vice president in 1956, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for president. A young, handsome and personable candidate with a beautiful wife, Kennedy enjoyed the friendship and support of many high-profile Hollywood celebrities, who helped raise money for his campaign.
John F. Kennedy This book report is being done on John F. Kennedy. One of the most famous and loved presidents we have had. This report will tell you about his life and how he became one of the great leaders of America. John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. His g...
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Is John F. Kennedy A "Champion of Civil Rights?" Some believe Kennedy is a "champion of civil rights." I do not agree with that belief. Kennedy did affect the civil rights act in many positive ways, but he was no champion. I do not believe John F. Kennedy is a "champion of civil rights" b...
His mother, Rose, was the daughter of John F. ... John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle. ... John Kennedy was dead, but the Kennedy mystique was still alive. ... Long remembered as "John-John," the three-year-old who stoically saluted his father's casket during live television coverage of the funeral procession, John Jr. became the founder and editor-in-chief of the political magazine George in the mid-1990s. In 1999, when John Jr., his wife, and his sister-in-law died in the crash of the private plane he was piloting, the event was the focus of an internatio...
John F. Kennedy, President is a book that sheds an interesting view of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life as the 35th president of The United States of America. It reminds people how great of a man he was and what he did for our country. JFK was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Kenne...
"Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty."" What message was John F. Kennedy trying to convey? John F. Kennedy expresses that our nation will sacrifice anything in order to secure Liberty within our nation. In Jo...
Some people consider him one of the best presidents of all time. Many others say there will never be another one like him. And yet there is still so much about John F. Kennedy that is ignored. The most shocking to me were his numerous affairs with women, including one with one of the biggest cultura...
The assassinations of United States presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are well known events in American history. Though their terms in office were abruptly ended almost one hundred years apart, there are several similarities that can be recognized between the two assassinations. Abra...
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